More information:

https://militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=1626

https://www.minnesotamedalofhonormemorial.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Rudolph-Sr.-Donald-Eugene-June-16.pdf

Second Lieutenant Donald E. Rudolph, Sr. (World War II) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftsnelling.asp. He received the Medal of Honor while serving in the U.S. Army, Company E, 20th Infantry, 6th Infantry Battalion, for actions in Munoz, Luzon, Philippine Islands, February 5, 1945. Rudolph died in 2006.  https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/donald-e-rudolph
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President Truman pinning the Medal of Honor of Donald Rudolph.

Fort Snelling National Cemetery

Here is his Medal of Honor Citation:
Second Lt. Rudolph (then TSgt.) was acting as platoon leader at Munoz, Luzon, Philippine Islands. While administering first aid on the battlefield, he observed enemy fire issuing from a nearby culvert. Crawling to the culvert with rifle and grenades, he killed three of the enemy concealed there. He then worked his way across open terrain toward a line of enemy pillboxes which had immobilized his company. Nearing the first pillbox, he hurled a grenade through its embrasure and charged the position. With his bare hands he tore away the wood and tin covering, then dropped a grenade through the opening, killing the enemy gunners and destroying their machine gun. Ordering several riflemen to cover his further advance, 2d Lt. Rudolph seized a pick mattock and made his way to a second pillbox. Piercing its top with the mattock, he dropped a grenade through the hole, firing several rounds from his rifle into it, and smothered any surviving enemy by

DONALD E RUDOLPH SR

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WORLD WAR II

KOREA

MEDAL OF HONOR

PURPLE HEART & OLC

US ARMY,

2ND LT

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